SD-WAN Jobs in the North of England

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for SD-WAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SD-WAN over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 354 387
Rank change year-on-year +72 +33 -98
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 109 85 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.62% 0.49% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.04% 2.69% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 85 74 49
10th Percentile £48,000 £35,375 £34,350
25th Percentile £56,250 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +52.63% -17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £63,766 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,919 £81,750 £73,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £58,383
% change year-on-year +0.92% -6.65% -6.59%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

SD-WAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,163 3,165 2,786
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 12.36% 18.40% 15.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,658 1,256 1,685
10th Percentile £25,963 £26,125 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,019 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £46,223
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -2.64% +2.72%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £73,675
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing SD-WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the North of England

SD-WAN
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in the North of England.

Salary trend for SD-WAN in the North of England

SD-WAN
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SD-WAN in the North of England

SD-WAN
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SD-WAN within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +28 71 £70,000 +34.62% 9
Yorkshire +98 46 £62,500 +38.89% 4
North East -2 7 £79,842 +79.38% 1
SD-WAN
England

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (11.01%) IIS
2 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 60 (55.05%) Azure
2 43 (39.45%) AWS
3 27 (24.77%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (11.01%) GCP
5 9 (8.26%) IaaS
6 7 (6.42%) PaaS
7 5 (4.59%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.83%) GitHub
8 2 (1.83%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.83%) SaaS
9 1 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.92%) CloudFront
9 1 (0.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 106 (97.25%) WAN
2 60 (55.05%) Firewall
3 27 (24.77%) LAN
4 22 (20.18%) DNS
4 22 (20.18%) Wireless
5 21 (19.27%) VPN
6 19 (17.43%) BGP
6 19 (17.43%) DHCP
7 17 (15.60%) MPLS
7 17 (15.60%) OSPF
8 12 (11.01%) iSCSI
8 12 (11.01%) SAN
9 11 (10.09%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (9.17%) Cisco Firepower
11 8 (7.34%) SSL
12 7 (6.42%) Internet
12 7 (6.42%) TCP/IP
13 6 (5.50%) WLAN
14 5 (4.59%) Spanning Tree
15 4 (3.67%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.92%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.92%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (11.93%) Finance
2 9 (8.26%) Public Sector
3 7 (6.42%) Social Skills
4 3 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.92%) Banking
5 1 (0.92%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (42.20%) Architect
2 33 (30.28%) Security Architect
3 26 (23.85%) Lead
4 21 (19.27%) Senior
5 20 (18.35%) Lead Architect
5 20 (18.35%) Lead Security Architect
6 18 (16.51%) Senior Architect
7 16 (14.68%) Infrastructure Manager
8 15 (13.76%) Network Engineer
9 13 (11.93%) Senior Security Architect
9 13 (11.93%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (11.01%) Cisco Architect
10 12 (11.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (11.01%) Senior Cisco Architect
11 8 (7.34%) IP Architect
12 7 (6.42%) Cisco Security Architect
13 5 (4.59%) Cisco Solutions Architect
13 5 (4.59%) Presales Engineer
13 5 (4.59%) Senior Cisco Solutions Architect
13 5 (4.59%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.92%) AWS CDK
1 1 (0.92%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 26 (23.85%) Management Information System
2 21 (19.27%) Data Centre
3 12 (11.01%) PMI
4 7 (6.42%) Clustering
5 3 (2.75%) PKI
6 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.92%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.92%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.92%) Replication
7 1 (0.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (19.27%) Linux
2 14 (12.84%) Windows
3 5 (4.59%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.92%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (29.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (26.61%) Information Security
3 26 (23.85%) Application Security
3 26 (23.85%) Identity Management
3 26 (23.85%) OWASP
3 26 (23.85%) Secure Coding
3 26 (23.85%) Security Architecture
4 22 (20.18%) CI/CD
5 21 (19.27%) Mentoring
6 20 (18.35%) Line Management
7 17 (15.60%) Presales
8 15 (13.76%) Time Management
9 14 (12.84%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (12.84%) Project Management
10 13 (11.93%) Agile
10 13 (11.93%) Capacity Planning
10 13 (11.93%) Disaster Recovery
10 13 (11.93%) High Availability
10 13 (11.93%) Migration
11 12 (11.01%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.34%) PowerShell
2 6 (5.50%) SQL
3 3 (2.75%) Python
4 1 (0.92%) Bash
Qualifications
1 46 (42.20%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (23.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 26 (23.85%) AWS Certification
2 26 (23.85%) Azure Certification
2 26 (23.85%) CCSK
2 26 (23.85%) CCSP
2 26 (23.85%) CISM
2 26 (23.85%) CISSP
3 19 (17.43%) CCNP
4 17 (15.60%) CCNA
5 13 (11.93%) Degree
6 12 (11.01%) PMI Certification
7 8 (7.34%) SC Cleared
7 8 (7.34%) Security Cleared
8 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.92%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (24.77%) NIST
2 6 (5.50%) SLA
3 1 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.92%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.92%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (25.69%) Docker
2 22 (20.18%) Active Directory
3 21 (19.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (15.60%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.75%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.92%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.92%) VMware Server
6 1 (0.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (27.52%) Kubernetes
2 28 (25.69%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (11.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 12 (11.01%) Opsgenie
3 12 (11.01%) VxRail
3 12 (11.01%) ZABBIX
4 8 (7.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (6.42%) Failover Clustering
5 7 (6.42%) Stealthwatch
5 7 (6.42%) Terraform
6 5 (4.59%) CASB
7 4 (3.67%) FortiGate
8 3 (2.75%) Ansible
9 2 (1.83%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (1.83%) WSUS
10 1 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 46 (42.20%) Cisco
2 38 (34.86%) Microsoft
3 33 (30.28%) VMware
4 27 (24.77%) Fortinet
5 19 (17.43%) Meraki
6 15 (13.76%) SolarWinds
7 12 (11.01%) Adobe
7 12 (11.01%) Apple
7 12 (11.01%) Dell
7 12 (11.01%) NetApp
8 8 (7.34%) Juniper
9 3 (2.75%) Draytek
9 3 (2.75%) Huawei
9 3 (2.75%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (1.83%) Barracuda Networks
10 2 (1.83%) Remedy
11 1 (0.92%) Arista
11 1 (0.92%) Aruba
11 1 (0.92%) Sun
11 1 (0.92%) Veeam